Recently, the hot screenings of two epic dramas "Napoleon" and "Flower Moon Killer" have made people feel the exhaustion of this year's blockbuster film and television works. And the misses of Ridley Scott and Martin Scorsese seem to highlight that "Oppenheimer" and Nolan are more likely to win the Oscars. In recent years, the appeal of epic dramas seems to be waning, and this seems to be an inevitable trend.
As Ridley Scott and Martin Scorsese get older, perhaps few filmmakers will be willing to dabble in epic dramas in the future. Although "Killer of the Flower Moon" is not strictly an epic drama, Lao Ma's outstanding skills make it an epic gangster film. According to **, this is also an epic work. The reputation is good, and it is worth seeing.
Before the pros and cons of the "Flower Moon Killer" movie, let's first understand the plot of the movie, which is the background of the movie's story. The story takes place in 1838 and 1839, during which time thousands of Native Americans were forced to leave their tribes in the southeastern United States and be relocated to "Indian Territory" west of the Mississippi River.
Among them, the Osage tribe was forcibly relocated from Kansas to Osage County (Orange County) in Oklahoma. There, the land was barren and difficult to cultivate, and the whites could not grow crops there, so they exiled the Osage to fend for themselves there. What they didn't expect, however, was the discovery of oil in Osage County.
The Osage tribe settled there, like the Arabs of the Middle East, and received great wealth from the barren lands. The Osage people themselves did not know how to exploit these resources, so the U.S. Congress issued a decree that ** leased land to manage and extract oil. In return, ** gives the Osage a large sum of money each year, known as "capitation rights", as a franchise fee.
In fact, the Osage people lease their land to ** and then simply collect a fixed rent and nothing else. They can easily access the large amount of money issued by ** with the "capitation right". The Osage quickly accumulated their wealth and became one of the richest peoples!For white people, this is an intolerable thing.
They thought that the Indians were supposed to be an inferior race, so how could they get wealth for nothingSo a large number of whites poured into Osage County, unscrupulously trying to extract wealth from the Osage. Osage people are often asked to pay ridiculously high "Osage**" when dealing with white merchants, for example, a coffin can cost as much as $3,000.
White doctors and pharmacists managed to make Osage patients addicted to expensive drugs and even outright tricked into taking them. At the same time, lawyers traveled to Oklahoma in droves to "assist" the Osage family in business transactions for exorbitant fees. For whites, these earnings are just a drop in the bucket.
Things got worse in 1921, however, when Congress passed a law requiring all Osage people to pass an "aptitude" test to determine if they were able to manage their finances. As a result, almost all pure-blood Osage people were automatically considered "incompetent" and assigned a "guardian" (white) to dispose of their property.
Only with the consent of their guardians can the Osage people dispose of their property. Each person may not be able to withdraw more than $1,000 per year from the trust. Most of the people who were chosen as guardians of the Osage property were local whites with heads and faces. This racially biased system eventually laid the foundation for the subsequent series of ** cases in Osage County.
As early as 1902, before the oil of Osage County had reached its full value, a Hale named Robert De Niro began to covet the wealth of the Osage people.
As the Osage grew wealthy, the small ranch was no longer enough for Hale, not even as the guardian of the Osage property, and he aimed at the Osage capitation gains, and a great conspiracy came to his mind. According to the regulations, the Ossech can inherit the capitation right, but not **, while the non-indigenous people can obtain the inheritance right through marriage.
Hale introduced his nephew, Leonardo DiCaprio, to tribesman Lily Gladstone, and soon the two were married. Molly's family has three sisters. Little did Molly, however, that from the day she married Ernest, disaster had begun to befall her family.
In 1918, Molly's sister Minnie died suddenly, she was very healthy and only 27 years old when she died, and half of her head rights were given to her mother, Lizzie. By May 1921, the body of her sister Anna was found in a remote valley, and because the body was decomposed and not found, the authorities hastily closed the case.
According to the provisions of the inheritance law, after Anna's divorce, half of her estate will be inherited by her mother, Lizzie, and the other half by her sisters. However, after Lizzie's death, her share was inherited by Molly. Then, Molly's other sister Rita was killed at home, and Rita's estate was inherited by Molly. In this way, Molly became the sole heir of the family.
Meanwhile, Molly's cousin, Henry Ron, was found dead by a gunshot shot in his car, and he purchased an insurance policy before he died, after which Hale would receive the benefits. In just two years, Molly's family passed away one after another, making her the sole heir of the family. However, Molly herself has been poisoned by chronic poison and is dying.
If Molly dies, her entire estate will go to Ernest, while Hale tries to transfer the Molly family's fortune into his own hands through marriage through intrigue and **. This conspiracy can be described as vicious. That's what white people did at the time, and it was all real, not fictional.
In addition, the article mentions that the Osage in Hale's custody was named George Bighardt, the son of the late Osage chief James and who also possessed great wealth. On June 28, 1923, George was rushed to the hospital for drunken poisoning, but when he woke up, he suspected that he had been poisoned. However, George died in the hospital that morning. Does Hale have anything to do with George and Vaughn's death?This seems beyond doubt.
Hale's dark side is evident. However, ironically, Hale in "The Killer of the Flower Moon" is ostensibly a philanthropist, the first good of Osage. It's ironic. In the 20s of the 20th century, the Osage Indians became rich due to the development of oil fields, but they suffered one after another, which caused strong concern.
FBI Director Herbert Hoover was in desperate need of a case to establish the FBI's prestige, so he sent his right-hand man, Tom White, to lead a team to conduct a covert investigation. With the **case** of Rita's family, Molly, who was **taken away to accept**, gradually revealed the truth, and the tainted testimony of gang member Morrison also accelerated the progress of the case.
Eventually, the criminals were brought to justice, and "The Flower Moon Killer" revealed only a portion of the killing of the Osage County Indians. However, the movie "Flower Moon Killer" forcibly compresses the rich plot like a TV series into one movie, resulting in a huge amount of information that is difficult to digest. In addition, the wayward behavior of Leonardo DiCaprio in "Little Plum" also had an impact on this work.
The newly formed Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) stepped in and took over the "Osage Series", which was an important case handled by the agency. However, the FBI did not go well at first and got bogged down. Young FBI leader John Edgar Hoover approached former Texas Mountie Tom White in the hope that he could turn the tide.
White assembles a secret team, and their efforts gradually reveal the truth about one of the chilling conspiracy events in American history - the "Osage Series of ** Cases". Unfolds from the perspective of cop Tom White as he uncovers the dark conspiracy of the entire Osage case.
Martin Scorsese wanted "Little Plum" to play Tom White, but Little Plum was not interested in the role. He felt that this kind of story of a white detective as a savior was too much for him to challenge. Therefore, Xiao Lizi and Martin determined that "Killer of the Flower Moon" unfolds from the perspective of the couple Ernest and Molly. Xiao Lizi will play that silly nephew, Ernest.
This adjustment has made it quite difficult to unfold the story, as Ernest's role is not important, and he has always been silly and listens to Hale. "Flower Moon Killer" has Ernest as the protagonist, and the result is like watching a story with "Silly Strong" as the main perspective of the story. The role arrangement in the film "Flower Moon Killer" is really incredible.
At the beginning, Molly, played by actress Lily Gladstone, was the protagonist in the first half, and her strong aura added a lot of brightness to the whole film. However, by the second half, Lily Gladstone's character has all but disappeared, and the perspective has become chaotic. Although continuing from Ernest's point of view, Xiao Lizi's performance can't support the entire storyline.
Then the focus was on Tom White, but Jack Plemon's performance also failed to satisfy the audience. The whole film seems to be a mess and out of order. Xiao Lizi is like a tool man, and his performance is terrible. Perhaps this is the first time in his career that he has played the role of an ordinary person, however, the audience is not satisfied with his ordinary image. His performance was undoubtedly disappointing and contrasted sharply with what was expected of him.
If Xiao Lizi took over the role of Tom White at the beginning and performed it seriously, the film might have been much better. Just like Django Unchained, the storyline is extremely smooth, so why not?Alas, it's really a sigh of sighing.